Movie

Deadline

2009 · 89 min

A slow, unsettling descent into a fragile mind, where quiet dread and blurred reality keep you tense and disoriented.

Tagline: Focus your fear
Overview: A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
How it feels: Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Madness, trauma, isolation, obsession
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: madness
trauma
isolation
obsession
memory
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
unreliable narrator
single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild